The Influence of Relaxation with Electromyography and Islamic Prayer Programs for Female Muslim

Chronic work-related stress can fray nerves, keep you up at night and contribute to significant and independent risk problems such as heart disease and depression. Particularly, chronic job strain can put both your physical and emotional health at risk. Muscle relaxation is a useful evidence based t...

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Main Authors: Wang, Jing, Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab, Abdalla, Ahmed N., Gu, Ming, Liu, Yao, Hanisah, Mohd Noor
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spelling my.ump.umpir.67862018-10-03T07:47:00Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6786/ The Influence of Relaxation with Electromyography and Islamic Prayer Programs for Female Muslim Wang, Jing Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab Abdalla, Ahmed N. Gu, Ming Liu, Yao Hanisah, Mohd Noor RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Chronic work-related stress can fray nerves, keep you up at night and contribute to significant and independent risk problems such as heart disease and depression. Particularly, chronic job strain can put both your physical and emotional health at risk. Muscle relaxation is a useful evidence based teaching and treatment approach for physical/remedial therapists. It can show unnecessary covert muscles co-contractions and the muscles staying tense after performing a task and not relaxing. The physiological monitoring can identify low level muscle activity which is not recognized by either the client or the therapist. Electromyography (EMG) allows the invisible muscle tension to become visible and is illustrated through a case study of a client who sought treatment because of shoulder pain. Her pain started when she became employed in a vegetable store and continued to increase to the point that she was afraid that she would have to stop working. During the assessment sessions, the trapezius and deltoid EMG were recorded while her role played her job task which is keyboard typewriting practice programs. The EMG showed increased shoulder tension, which did not return to baseline; there baseline was also an absence of regenerative EMG gaps. Salah is the physically demanding practice of formal prayer in Islam that helps adjust the rhythm of the body. After Salah training for clients, substantial upper trapezius muscles activity can be demonstrated. In the present investigation,the muscle activity of the right and left external upper trapezius muscles was examined to assess the level of muscle activity during Islamic prayer. The EMG showed more significant decrease and relaxation compared with non-training tasks of clients. After actually training using Salah with reduced dysponesis, the client reported a significant decrease in headache and less exhaustion after a day’s work. At 1 month follow up, she reported a significant decrease in her shoulder complaints and was able to continue her job without shoulder problems. In summary, the findings are EMG-based. Salah augments the behavioral interventions because it helps develop internal awareness and enhance health status and reduce the risk of shoulder problems. Academic Journals 2012-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6786/1/The_influence_of_relaxation_with_electromyography_and_Islamic_Prayer_Program.pdf application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6786/4/The%20influence%20of%20relaxation%20.pdf Wang, Jing and Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab and Abdalla, Ahmed N. and Gu, Ming and Liu, Yao and Hanisah, Mohd Noor (2012) The Influence of Relaxation with Electromyography and Islamic Prayer Programs for Female Muslim. International Journal of the Physical Sciences, 7 (22). pp. 2897-2904. ISSN 1992-1950 http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/IJPS/article-abstract/2DCC30A17766 DOI: 10.5897/IJPS11.1671
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topic RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
spellingShingle RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Wang, Jing
Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab
Abdalla, Ahmed N.
Gu, Ming
Liu, Yao
Hanisah, Mohd Noor
The Influence of Relaxation with Electromyography and Islamic Prayer Programs for Female Muslim
description Chronic work-related stress can fray nerves, keep you up at night and contribute to significant and independent risk problems such as heart disease and depression. Particularly, chronic job strain can put both your physical and emotional health at risk. Muscle relaxation is a useful evidence based teaching and treatment approach for physical/remedial therapists. It can show unnecessary covert muscles co-contractions and the muscles staying tense after performing a task and not relaxing. The physiological monitoring can identify low level muscle activity which is not recognized by either the client or the therapist. Electromyography (EMG) allows the invisible muscle tension to become visible and is illustrated through a case study of a client who sought treatment because of shoulder pain. Her pain started when she became employed in a vegetable store and continued to increase to the point that she was afraid that she would have to stop working. During the assessment sessions, the trapezius and deltoid EMG were recorded while her role played her job task which is keyboard typewriting practice programs. The EMG showed increased shoulder tension, which did not return to baseline; there baseline was also an absence of regenerative EMG gaps. Salah is the physically demanding practice of formal prayer in Islam that helps adjust the rhythm of the body. After Salah training for clients, substantial upper trapezius muscles activity can be demonstrated. In the present investigation,the muscle activity of the right and left external upper trapezius muscles was examined to assess the level of muscle activity during Islamic prayer. The EMG showed more significant decrease and relaxation compared with non-training tasks of clients. After actually training using Salah with reduced dysponesis, the client reported a significant decrease in headache and less exhaustion after a day’s work. At 1 month follow up, she reported a significant decrease in her shoulder complaints and was able to continue her job without shoulder problems. In summary, the findings are EMG-based. Salah augments the behavioral interventions because it helps develop internal awareness and enhance health status and reduce the risk of shoulder problems.
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author Wang, Jing
Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab
Abdalla, Ahmed N.
Gu, Ming
Liu, Yao
Hanisah, Mohd Noor
author_facet Wang, Jing
Muhammad Nubli, Abdul Wahab
Abdalla, Ahmed N.
Gu, Ming
Liu, Yao
Hanisah, Mohd Noor
author_sort Wang, Jing
title The Influence of Relaxation with Electromyography and Islamic Prayer Programs for Female Muslim
title_short The Influence of Relaxation with Electromyography and Islamic Prayer Programs for Female Muslim
title_full The Influence of Relaxation with Electromyography and Islamic Prayer Programs for Female Muslim
title_fullStr The Influence of Relaxation with Electromyography and Islamic Prayer Programs for Female Muslim
title_full_unstemmed The Influence of Relaxation with Electromyography and Islamic Prayer Programs for Female Muslim
title_sort influence of relaxation with electromyography and islamic prayer programs for female muslim
publisher Academic Journals
publishDate 2012
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6786/1/The_influence_of_relaxation_with_electromyography_and_Islamic_Prayer_Program.pdf
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